Cyber resilience through insurance?

Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS)

IT security incidents in the past reveal that the industrial IT environment (which is connected to the Internet) can be misused as a gateway for cyber attacks for instance to the IT of the electricity generation plant and other critical infrastructures. As an example, we will pursue the question with which IT risks the operators of critical infrastructures are confronted and how cyber insurances are an issue as part of entrepreneurial risk-management processes.